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How Long Should You Hire Cold Storage For? A Business Owner’s Guide

If your business needs to store perishable or temperature-sensitive goods, you’re probably already looking into cold storage hire. But how long should you hire a unit for? A week? A month? Six?

It’s a deceptively simple question—and getting the answer wrong can cost you more than just money. Let’s go through how to choose the right hire duration based on your operations, budget, and future plans.

Step 1: Know What You're Storing

First, consider what kind of items you’ll be storing. A bakery storing butter and cream has different needs from a laboratory storing...

Liv Butler

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New businesses offered a helping hand

One of Exeter’s busiest and liveliest networking clubs is extending a helping hand to fledgling businesses with a free membership offer.

Exeter Business Club, renowned for its mutual support and shared knowledge in its regular meetings and seminars, has decided to take on five new start-ups, waiving the membership joining fee for a year.

The club operates a one member one sector policy to ensure no competition between members and this rule would be applied to start-ups applying to join.

"It occurred to us recently that our members have a huge amount of combined...

Everys rural affairs team enjoy Honiton Show

Authored by Everys
Posted: Fri, 08/08/2014 - 8:09am

Everys Solicitors’ agriculture and rural affairs team were on hand to welcome existing and potential clients to the Honiton Show.

The firm set up its base amid the Honiton & District Agricultural Association’s 140-acre site in the heart of the East Devon countryside.

Invited guests were treated to a buffet lunch and afternoon tea, while glasses of Pimms, Otter ale and hot beverages were available throughout the day, along with face painting for children.

Everys’ investment management team also had a pitch and were serving up Pimms and canapés along with...

Rebrand for Exeter Peugeot dealership

Local Peugeot Dealership, Truscotts Exeter, has been awarded Peugeot Business Centre status after delivering superior standards for customers in Exeter.

Truscotts Exeter, on Matford Park Road, had to achieve excellence across 35 specific business areas to be awarded the status and join a network of 88 other Peugeot Business Centres across the UK.

The Peugeot Business Centre scheme means that customers in Exeter, whether business or consumer, are guaranteed consistently high quality service. To make sure these service levels are maintained, every dealer is regularly reviewed...

Devon's businesses need to combat skills gap

Action is required to stem a skills crisis in the South West, warns new research today.

The Prince’s Trust and HSBC report suggests that 69 per cent of South West businesses believe a significant skills crisis will hit their organisations within the next three years while 43 per cent predict it will happen within the next 12 months. Two thirds of South West businesses surveyed fear skills shortages will halt the UK's economic recovery, while a third fear it would cause their business to fold.

The report, based on interviews with UK business leaders1 suggests that 81 per...

Council pledges support for networking event

Authored by sandypark
Posted: Wed, 08/06/2014 - 10:47am

A number of high profile businesses from Exeter and the South West will gather at award-winning Sandy Park this November, for the annual b2b@SandyPark exhibition.

The event, which takes places on Thursday 5 November (10am–5pm), sees Sandy Park team up with the region’s top Premiership Rugby Club the Exeter Chiefs, and has already secured support from Exeter City Council plus local media The Exeter Daily, Radio Exe and the Express and Echo.

B2b@SandyPark promises to be a unique business to business opportunity for companies to not only showcase their products and services,...

Okehampton East Business Park plans submitted

Plans to build a 20 acre business park in Okehampton have taken another step forward.

An outline planning application for the Okehampton East Business Park has been submitted and and formally accepted into the planning process.

If approved, it will be located to the east of the town and aims to create a range of commercial premises along with the creation of around 150 jobs.

The aspiration is to facilitate a suitable space for the creation of high quality business premises.

It follows an extremely positive public consultation in April this year where...

Exeter firm invests in own solar energy

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 08/05/2014 - 11:27am

Global electrical and electronic components manufacturer Carling Technologies has completed work on a solar energy installation at its European headquarters in Devon that is expected to reduce the site’s annual CO2 emissions by an estimated 383 tonnes. The distribution centre in Exeter transports components to industrial vehicle, bus and truck companies throughout Europe, with 80% of its revenue coming from export sales. Mike Fanzo, General Manager of Carling Technologies in the UK, said the energy cost savings that had been secured by the move to clean energy would support the firm’s...

Berry Recruitment counts on staff for fundraising

Research into the fight against cancer has been given a boost by staff at the Exeter branch of a national specialist recruitment company.

They were among 150 dedicated employees from Berry Recruitment's 27 offices nationwide to rise to a fundraising challenge in aid of Cancer Research UK.

With the final totals now collected, the branches and head office in St Albans, Hertfordshire, succeeded in raising more than £1,000 of much needed funds.

Staff were on the ball with a whole host of activities, including World Cup themed events, sponsored runs and a...

ExIST member offers a day’s labour

A retired Managing Director, professional engineer, STEM Ambassador and Business-Liaison Coordinator for ExIST (Exeter’s Initiative for Science and Technology), is offering to work for a day for any Exeter company in exchange for a donated iPad for Cullompton Community College.

Peter Shrubsall, a Governor at Cullompton Community College, with a particular interest in science and engineering, is looking for a novel way to help the school acquire enough iPads and an Apple TV to enable students to use the tablets in class and show everyone their results and findings using this latest...

Flybe appoint non-executive director

Flybe, Europe's largest regional airline, is pleased to announce the appointment of Liz McMeikan as a Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 August 2014. Liz is Senior Independent Director at JD Wetherspoon plc and chairs the Remuneration Committee at Unite Group plc.

She is also a Non-Executive Director at Fresca Group, a £365m private business, and Chairman of the Moat Housing Association. Liz spent her early career at Colgate-Palmolive and then at Tesco, establishing Tesco Express and being appointed Stores Board Director for Change Management and Human Resources. Liz will...

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